A Berkeley Earth study of newly released air quality data from 1,500 sites across East Asia has found that airborne particulate matter contributes to 1.6 million deaths per year in China. That is equivalent to about 4,400 per day, and makes up approximately 17% of all deaths in China. The New York Times’ Dan Levin reports:
According to the data presented in the paper, about three-eighths of the Chinese population breathe air that would be rated “unhealthy”